Citizen Emperor (150 page)
Authors: Philip Dwyer
| 26 . | Thiébault, Mémoires , iii. pp. 380–1; Lanzac de Laborie, Paris sous Napoléon , iii. p. 29. |
| 27 . | Rémusat, Mémoires , ii. p. 72. |
| 28 . | Biver, Le Paris de Napoléon , p. 65. |
| 29 . | Biver, Le Paris de Napoléon , p. 62. |
| 30 . | Turquan, L’impératrice Joséphine , pp. 40–1. |
| 31 . | Bigarré, Mémoires , p. 147. |
| 32 . | Cornet, Souvenirs sénatoriaux , p. 56; Savary, Mémoires , ii. p. 116. |
| 33 . | This is taken from Cabanis, Le sacre de Napoléon , p. 96. |
| 34 . | Las Cases, Mémorial , ii. p. 198. |
| 35 . | René Boudard, ‘Le sacre de Napoléon vu par un figurant’, Revue de l’Institut Napoléon , 50 (1954), 34. |
| 36 . | Rémusat, Mémoires , ii. p. 71. |
| 37 . | Waller, ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’, pp. 121, 122. |
| 38 . | Marquiset, Napoléon sténographié , pp. 49–50 (16 October 1804); Peter Hicks, ‘Un sacre sans pareil’, in Lentz (ed.), Le sacre de Napoléon , pp. 101–39. |
| 39 . | Bade (ed.), ‘Souvenirs de Stéphanie de Beauharnais’, p. 81. |
| 40 . | See Christopher Clark, ‘When Culture Meets Power: The Prussian Coronation of 1701’, in Hamish Scott and Brendan Simms (eds), Cultures of Power in Europe (Cambridge, 2007), p. 19. |
| 41 . | Lentz (ed.), Le sacre de Napoléon , p. 116. |
| 42 . | The question is raised by Chanteranne, Le sacre de Napoléon , p. 153. |
| 43 . | Rémusat, Mémoires , ii. p. 57; Frédéric Masson, Joséphine, impératrice et reine (Paris, 1899), p. 225. |
| 44 . | Abrantès, Mémoires , v. p. 129. |
| 45 . | Chanteranne, Le sacre de Napoléon , pp. 158–9; Clark, ‘When Culture Meets Power’, p. 14. |
| 46 . | Masson, Le sacre et le couronnement de Napoléon , p. 21. |
| 47 . | Chanteranne, Le sacre de Napoléon , p. 157. |
| 48 . | Bluche, Le Bonapartisme , p. 31. |
| 49 . | See Tulard, Napoléon ou le mythe du sauveur , pp. 172–3; Boudon, Napoléon et les cultes , p. 128. |
| 50 . | Chanteranne, Le sacre de Napoléon , p. 129. |
| 51 . | Corr. x. n. 8237 (27 December 1804). |
| 52 . | Dusaulchoy de Bergemont, Histoire du couronnement , p. 288. The notion of divine right would gain authority as the Empire progressed. |
| 53 . | Brookner, Jacques-Louis David , p. 150. |
| 54 . | The following is based on Brookner, Jacques-Louis David , pp. 150–6; Prendergast, Napoleon and History Painting , pp. 38–48; Boime, Art in an Age of Bonapartism , ii. p. 47; Porterfield and Siegfried, Staging Empire , pp. 115–69; Todd Porterfield, ‘David sans David’, in Mark Ledbury (ed.), David after David: Essays on the Later Work (Williamstown, Mass., 2007), pp. 39–53; Sylvain Laveissière et al., Le Sacre de Napoléon peint par David (Paris, 2004); O’Brien, After the Revolution , pp. 145–8. |
| 55 . | Porterfield and Siegfried, Staging Empire , pp. 7–8. |
| 56 . | Philippe Bordes, Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile (New Haven, 2005), pp. 19–74, here p. 47. |
| 57 . | Schnapper and Sérullaz (eds), Jacques-Louis David , p. 413. |
| 58 . | Delécluze, Louis David , pp. 312–33; Porterfield, ‘David sans David’, p. 43. |
| 59 . | Philippe Bordes, ‘La fabrication de l’histoire par Jacques-Louis David’, in Triomphe et mort du héros: la peinture d’histoire en Europe de Rubens à Manet (London, 1988), p. 116; Porterfield and Siegfried, Staging Empire , pp. 10–11. |
| 60 . | Fanny Cosandey, La reine de France: symbole et pouvoir: XVe–XVIIIe siècle (Paris, 2000), pp. 137, 138. |
| 61 . | Porterfield and Siegfried, Staging Empire , p. 7. |
| 62 . | Pierre Colau, Couplets adressés à M. David, premier peintre de S.M. l’empereur et roi (Paris, n.d.); Cabanis, Le sacre de Napoléon , p. 22; Chanteranne, Le sacre de Napoléon , pp. 195–6; Guillaume Faroult, David (Paris, 2003), p. 98; Porterfield and Siegfried, Staging Empire , p. 9; Johnson, Jacques-Louis David , p. 196. |
| 63 . | On this point, Porterfield and Siegfried, Staging Empire , pp. 158–60. |
| 64 . | Moniteur universel , 16 January 1808; Description du tableau représentant le couronnement de leurs majestés impériales et royales (Paris, 1808), p. 5. |
| 65 . | Delécluze, Louis David , pp. 312–14; Prendergast, Napoleon and History Painting , p. 38. See also Stefan Germer, ‘On marche dans ce tableau: zur Konstituierung des “Realistischen” in den napoleonischen Darstellungen von Jacques-Louis David’, in Gudrun Gersmann and Hubertus Kohle (eds), Frankreich 1800: Gesellschaft, Kultur, Mentalitäten (Stuttgart, 1990), pp. 81–103. |
| 66 . | Johnson, Jacques-Louis David , pp. 200, 204. |
| 67 . | Nouvelle description du tableau exposé au Musée Napoléon représentant de leurs majestés impériales et royales (Paris, 1808), p. 3. |
| 68 . | Hauterive, La police secrète du premier Empire , iv. p. 63 (15 February 1808). |
| 69 . | Annales de l’architecture et des arts libéraux et mécaniques , 18 March 1808, pp. 185–90. |
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